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ContentFilm International boosts AFM slate with The Moguls
ContentFilmInternational has lined up a prestigious slate of titles for AFM including workby Peter Greenaway, Keith Gordon and Paul Verhoeven, as well as comedy pick-up TheMoguls from Michael Kuhn's QwertyFilms.Following parent company ContentFilm's decision to shift its focus towardslibrary content with last summer's acquisition of Fireworks International,ContentFilm International's managing director ...
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LGFI acquires international rights to First Descent
Lions Gate FilmsInternational has picked up worldwide rights excluding the US to MD Films'snowboarding documentary First Descent and will give the title its market premiere at AFM next week.Universal Pictures holds domestic theatrical and home entertainment rights andwill release the picture on Dec 2.First Descent chronicles the riseof snowboarding seen ...
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SKE enters Breach with Universal
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment(SKE) has come aboard as co-financer on Universal's spy thriller Breach, written and to be directed by Billy Ray in hisfirst feature since Shattered Glass.Kimmel International will commence sales at AFM on the project and Universalwill oversee production and retain all North American rights.Based on true events, Breachstars ...
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Bleiberg bulks up with Champagne Spy, Love & Dance
Ehud Bleiberg's fledglingBleiberg Entertainment is to co-produce and handle worldwide sales on theespionage documentary The Champagne Spy and the drama Love & Dance.The Champagne Spy, a BleibergEntertainment production in association with July August Productions, followsan Israeli agent who goes undercover to sabotage an Egyptian weapons programmeand becomes addicted to his ...
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Lightning strikes for Adam & Eve
Lightning Entertainment haspicked up international sales on Jeff Kanew's romantic comedy Adam & Eve and is partnering up with National Lampoon for adomestic theatrical release.New Line Home Entertainment will release on DVD and video the story of a collegestudent who dates a virgin and battles to stay faithful until she ...
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Gaule takes High Point global sales role
UK-based sales company HighPoint Films has appointed Tara Gaule as its newsenior sales executive. Gaule will be responsible forworld sales outside English-speaking territories. Gaule previously worked for Mercury Media International,Minotaur International and Nelvana.The company noted that Gaule would boost its presence in France; High Point recently took on sales forFrench-language ...
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Vaughn sprinkles Stardust on struggling UK industry
The beleagured UKindustry has received a much-needed boost with news that British directorMatthew Vaughn is planning to shoot his next film primarily on home soil. Vaughn’s £50 million fantasy film Stardust, basedon a Neil Gaiman book, will be based at PinewoodStudios. It will also shoot at locations elsewhere in Britain. ...
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Oscar-winner Arnold sets off along Red Road
Oscar-winningdirector, Andrea Arnold starts principal photography on her first feature, Red Road, in Glasgow thisweek.The film is being produced by Red Road Films, a subsidiary of Glasgow-based Sigma Films. It is a collaboration with Zentropa Films - part of Lars von Trier's experimental project, The Advance Party.Red Road is the ...
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Jarhead
Dir. Sam Mendes. US. 2005. 120mins.Technically strong and well performed,the visually accomplished Jarhead isa complex, mournful meditation on war and its consequences that director SamMendes also manages to inject with a bracing emotional immediacy.For Mendes himself it alsoanswers some of the criticisms he drew with RoadTo Perdition, regarded by some ...
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Independent distributor to make new year debut
A newindependent distributor will begin operations in the Netherlands and Belgium fromJanuary.Dutchcompanies Filmworks and Inspire Pictures and the Belgium distributor Lumierehave joined forces to form Benelux Film Distributors. The companyis aiming for a wide range of independent film productions, from mainstream toarthouse. Amongstthe titles to be released in 2006 are ...
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Japan's Dance waltzes into Korea
Japanese title Shall We Dance' is poised to repeat its overseas box office success in Korea where it has outperformed Erin Brockovich, racking up 100,000 admissions in its first week.The 1995 comedy, directed by Masayuki Suo, opened in Korea on 69 screens on May 13. The film looks set to ...
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Saw II hacks down Zorro at domestic box office
Lions Gate's horrorsequel sliced up the competition and shunted Sony's adventure sequel TheLegend Of Zorro into second placewith an estimated $30.5m opening that offered a hint of optimism for the autumnbox office.Despite mediocre reviews thepicture scored a superb debut that far exceeded the $18.3m launch of its 2004predecessor. Saw II ...
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Sundance commits to Park City until 2018, moves HQ from Salt Lake City
The Sundance Institute's year-round administrative headquartersare relocating from Salt Lake City to Park City in a deal between the SundanceInstitute and Park City Municipal Corporation that ensures the festival willstay in Park City through 2018.In early autumn 2006 the Institute will move to a renovatedhistoric building at the Spiro mining ...
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...but Zorro cuts a swathe in international launch with $27m
The Legend Of Zorro cut a swath through the international marketplaceover the weekend as it launched on an estimated $27m on 6,140 prints in 50countries.Handled in most territoriesthrough Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI), which licensed rightsfrom the picture's co-financier Spyglass Entertainment, the adventure sequelopened top in 40 markets and enjoyed ...
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Picturehouse buys North America on Prairie Home Companion
Picturehouse has acquiredall North American rights to Robert Altman's ensemble A Prairie HomeCompanion based on GarrisonKeillor's radio variety show and starring Keillor, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline,Tommy Lee Jones, Lily Tomlin and John C Reilly.Woody Harrelson, VirginiaMadsen, Maya Rudolph and Lindsay Lohan also star in thefictionalised account of Keillor's show chronicling ...
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Universal endorses Christie/AIX digital projector
Following similar recent moves by Walt Disney Studios andTwentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures has agreed to supply features to theDCI-compliant digital projection systems deployed by Christie/AIX.Under the non-exclusive agreement Universal will provide titlesfrom its slate and will pay virtual print fees to Christie/AIX for each titleprojected on deployed systems as ...
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Unitel acquires international rights to kidnapping thriller Cavite
Philippine-owned Unitel Pictures International has acquiredworldwide rights excluding North America to Ian Gamazon and Neill De La Llana'skidnapping thriller Cavite for representation at this week's AFM in Santa Monca.Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner's Truly Indie Filmsis handling the picture in North America, which will become one of the firstreleases under ...
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Rubin's First Independent signs US DVD distribution deal with Visual
Gary Rubin's FirstIndependent Pictures has signed a multi-year distribution agreement with VisualEntertainment, a Universal Music Group division set up to distributeindependent features on DVD and video in the US.The slate kicks off withHuck Botko and Andre Gurland's comedy Mail Order Wife, Gary Sinyor's comedy Bob The Butler starring Tom Green, ...
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Gold Circle, Vertigo to bring Angel back to the screen
Gold Circle Films and Vertigo Entertainment are teaming up toadapt William Hjortsberg's 1978 novel Falling Angel, which Alan Parker famously turned intothe 1987 mystery Angel Heart.While that version madesignificant departures from the novel, Gold Circle and Vertigo plan a morefaithful adaptation, while setting it in the present day.The project marks ...
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Ford takes Ingenious finance role
Media investment group Ingenioushas appointed Sue Ford as group finance director. Ford previously held thesame position at Channel 4 Television Corporation and 4 Ventures Ltd. Sue will be responsible forthe financial management and governance of the Ingenious Group.In the last year, thecompany has raised film finance for productions such as ...